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regarding linssid: missing root privileges to run "iw wlan0 scan"
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Package: linssid
Version: 2.9-3
Severity: important
Tags: security
Dear Maintainer,
Just installing linssid in Stretch results in beeing unfunctional.
The installer creates an entry in the Applications-Menu which just is
unable to start linssid.
A (dirty) workaround is to start the application comletely as root from
the command line. However this is a unnecessary security risk as the
whole graphical stuff does not need the root privileges, it is just the
command "iw wlan0 scan" to contol the wifi-device. Running it this way
also spams the home directory of root with its configuration settings
and logging.
To demonstrate how it should work, and as version 2.7-1 under Jessie
does, I downloaded the original package linssid_2.9-1_amd64.deb from
SourceForge, installed the necessary dependencies (libboost-regex1.58
and libicu55) from Debian-snapshots and it works as expected. At start
it requests the root-PW once (popup window) and runs
"sudo iw wlan0 scan" to scan the device.
Of course this requires the user starting linssid, to be member of group
"sudo" and to modify /etc/sudoers to ask the root-PW, i.e like this:
Defaults env_reset, targetpw, timestamp_timeout=0
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Closing. Feel free to reopen.
Regards,
Eriberto
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